Quotes By Stephen Gardiner

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

What people want, above all, is order.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.